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B5C8ECB24DB47D1on IRC technology news from the first half of 2026

Wonderful to see so much activity within a so old community. Thanks for the news!

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on 'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now

"Git and email are the two really only tools I use"

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Solar on canals reduces water evaporation by 70% and algae growth by 85%

Nah, this is peak US innovation! /s

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Is my blue your blue? (2024)

Same here. 'My blue is not my blue', or yellow in my case. I realized this looking at the yellow doublet lines from Sodium vapor lamps: one of my eyes sees it greener than the other.

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Starlette 1.0.0

> Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building async web services in Python.

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)

An easy way to contribute to OSM is by using Street Complete (https://streetcomplete.app/) which asks questions about one's surroundings.

"This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map."

Available from f-droid.

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on CPUs are getting so small they're starting to hallucinate

Why is this illustrated with an SEM image of some chip from 2020?

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Opentrees.org (2024)

Fabulous, thanks!

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife

And for those enzymes to work efficiently you need hot enough water from the very beginning of the washing cycle. See the video link I posted in another comment.

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife

Dishwasher related video from "Technology Connections": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

Thank you!

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Sanctum 1.0.0 Released

> What is Sanctum?

> Sanctum is a small, reviewable, capable, PQ-secure and fully privilege separated novel VPN daemon and protocol designed to run under OpenBSD, Linux and MacOS.

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Robot scans rare library books at 2.5k pages per hour

Illustrated by a video from 14 years ago!

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Transmuting mercury into gold via fusion [pdf]

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610491

Marathon fusion claims to invent alchemy, making 5000 kgs gold per gigawatt (marathonfusion.com) 56 points by apugoneappu 1 day ago | flag | 89 comments

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Trump administration pulls $4B in federal funding for California's bullet train

On behalf of our investors and of our domestic clients: Thanks! Trustfully yours, Boeing

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Photos: The Scale of China's Solar-Power Projects

Well, technically, patents are accessible to all. One might not use what is described by the patent for commercial purposes for the patent lifetime but still, the information is accessible.

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on If it cites em dashes as proof, it came from a tool

— therefore, I disagree

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433114

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on So Much Better for Beginners Than Tmux

https://zellij.dev/

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on 'It's absolutely f–-ed': Why Google's new £1B London office is in crisis

https://archive.is/XWGIq

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Rare knife showing up at Bay Area restaurant tables, confusing people

Are we getting dumber by the hour to need a tutorial on how to use a knife?

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on It's the Most Indispensable Machine in the World–and It Depends on This Woman

She is a "customer-support engineer" on a EUV machine from ASML.

Shitty clickbait title...

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on A Chinese rocket narrowly missed a landing on Sunday–the video is amazing

the video: https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/1837855770823561257

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Microplastics Seem to Be in Every Kind of Animal Except One

tardigrades

The paper: https://peerj.com/articles/17641/

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Openwrt working on moving to Alpine Package Manager (APK)

Main objective is "replacing the unmaintained OPKG fork".

First announcement was in Feb 22: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/rfc-announcing-apkwrt/120096

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not pi (2022) [video]

Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video] (ccc.de) 607 points by robin_reala 58 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 170 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389267

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Newly discovered planet has almost the same surface temperatures as Earth

> Gliese 12 b maintains an estimated surface temperature of 107 degrees F (42 degrees C)

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on Pter: TUI and GUI for Todo.txt

Actual code is here: https://codeberg.org/vonshednob/pter

B5C8ECB24DB47D1on AMD FSR 3.1 Announced at GDC 2024

FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3

AMD's "cutting-edge open upscaling technology"